Examples Of Homophones

Here are 150 examples of homophones that are the most common homophone pairs and groups in the English language.

And by ‘most common’, we mean most common as per our own arbitrary decision making. There are thousands of homophones in total, so we went through the list and picked out examples of homophones that we felt are used most often on a day-to-day basis.

To make it on to this particular list, there had to be at least two homophones that are in everyday usage. This means that even though ‘the’ is a homophone (it’s pair is ‘thee’), it didn’t make it on to this list seeing as very few people use the word ‘thee’ anymore.

We’ve also left out a few words from homophone groups for a similar reason. For example, ‘air’ and ‘heir’ are on the list, but we didn’t include their additional homophones like ‘are’ and ‘ere’ as examples, as they’re rarely used in modern language.